Fatal resistance
The strong and mighty bacteria are all around us. They have hardened themselves to fight back the antibiotics administered to patients. This is …
Why India remains malnourished
Despite a fast-growing economy and the largest anti-malnutrition programme, India has the world’s worst level of child malnutrition. The …
Early intervention crucial for children with hearing loss
Children with severe to profound hearing loss can be treated as early as when they are eight months old
How do extreme weather events lead to increase in child marriages?
Droughts, floods and other extreme weather events by intensify gender inequality and poverty, causing a spurt in child, early and forced …
Was 2019 an 'Annus horribilis' for India's children?
Except a few positive headlines, 2019 was a year when Indian children were in the news for mostly the wrong reasons
Child labour: When do we start to rewrite their story
The day people really start believing that there can be no reason that justifies child labour, not even poverty — is the day the real …
Budget 2020-21: Why it’s high time for a thorough revamp of our child budget
India's allocation for children has been remained a paltry 3.3% for some time now. Here's why we need more
Age at marriage in India: A gossamer of complexities and intricate linkages
India is the home to largest number of child brides. Nearly 27 per cent women aged 20-24 years were married before attaining 18 years of age
Remembering 2022: What it meant for India’s children
As the year comes to a close and we gear up to welcome 2023, here’s revisiting some of the major events this year that significantly …
COVID-19, poverty may have spurred child marriages in India: Activists
Numbers show one in every four in India is a child marriage, but ground situation may be even worse
Not a child’s play to stand up against child marriage
After saying a no to her own marriage, Bishnupriya Pradhan is saving others from child marriage
Teenage pregnancies in every 3 of 5 child brides, finds CRY
Non-profit study significant proportion of adolescent mothers had low-birth-weight babies
Globally, just 1 in 4 children covered by social protection: UN report
One billion children live in multidimensional poverty without access to education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water
International Women’s Day: How education can rewrite the story of child marriages in India
Adolescent girls are more vulnerable to child marriage as they drop-out of school before completing education. Here’s an attempt at …
COVID-19: Inducing child, early and forced marriage
The lockdown has interrupted protective measures that need to be restarted immediately
Extreme weather events lead to increase in child marriages: Study
Droughts, floods and other extreme weather events intensify existing problems of gender inequality and poverty that lead families to …
WHO advises immediate skin-to-skin care for premature babies instead of initial period in incubator
Most babies born at or after 28 weeks survive in high-income countries, but in poor countries, survival rates can be as low as 10%
Gains lost: ILO flags rise in child labour — the first time this millennium
Globally, 9 million more children are at risk of child labour by the end of 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
National Girl Child Day: Without HER, there is no tomorrow
There are millions of girls across India, who are waiting to find their voice and realise their dreams; let’s extend a helping hand
Don’t raise legal age of girls’ marriage to 21: Odisha body to parliamentary panel
Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights urges parliament panel to keep 18 as minimum legal age for marriage of girls and boys
Over 1,400 more Odisha villages free of child marriage
All villages belong to tribal-dominated Kandhamal district; total 5,411 villages across 7 districts free of child marriage since 2019
COVID-19: Child trafficking, assault on the rise in north Bengal
Most tea growers lost livelihood to the pandemic; cases of sexual assualt do not reach courts
Odisha minister endorses CRY-VCRO campaign on child health, malnutrition
The six-month-long campaign reached out to children and mothers of 131 villages of five tribal districts in Odisha
Free the child from all barriers this Independence Day
As we celebrate seven decades of independence, we must give all our children the gift of real freedom – from prejudice, barriers, …
What the new National Education Policy misses — Time
Except the makers of the policy, everyone else acknowledges that a baby’s brain development starts from the moment it is born and not …
